java IO

 

new input/output (NIO) 

NIO was created to allow Java programmers to implement high-speed I/O without having to write custom native code. NIO moves the most time-consuming I/O activities (namely, filling and draining buffers) back into the operating system, thus allowing for a great increase in speed.

The central abstractions of the NIO APIs are:

• Buffers, which are containers for data;
• Charsets and their associated decoders and encoders, which translate between bytes and Unicode characters;
• Channels of various types, which represent connections to entities capable of performing I/O operations; and
• Selectors and selection keys, which together with selectable channels define a multiplexed, non-blocking I/O facility.

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
  
public class ReadFileWithFixedSizeBuffer
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        RandomAccessFile aFile = new RandomAccessFile
                ("test.txt", "r");
        FileChannel inChannel = aFile.getChannel();
        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
        while(inChannel.read(buffer) > 0)
        {
            buffer.flip();
            for (int i = 0; i < buffer.limit(); i++)
            {
                System.out.print((char) buffer.get());
            }
            buffer.clear(); // do something with the data and clear/compact it.
        }
        inChannel.close();
        aFile.close();
    }
}